Bikes & Wheels
This two-wheeled vehicle is powered by your legs and is one of the most common ways kids get around.
What is a bicycle?
When lots of students ride one vehicle to school together, it can reduce traffic and pollution. This vehicle is a...
What is a school bus?
If you live close to school, this transportation choice may be the healthiest and least polluting.
What is walking?
These parts of an airplane help it stay in the air.
What are wings?
Trains travel on these long metal paths that guide their wheels.
What are tracks?
What is a horse?
Before bicycles, people often traveled using this four-legged animal.
Riding a bike instead of driving for a short trip can help reduce this gas that warms Earth's atmosphere.
What is carbon dioxide?
A busy street near a school has no place for kids to cross safely. City leaders might add one of these with painted stripes.
What is a crosswalk?
The people who made the first successful powered airplane flight in 1903 were these famous brothers.
Who are Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright?
This type of train runs under the ground in big cities like New York and London.
What is the subway?
This part of a bike lets you steer left and right.
What is the handlebars?
A trip taken by bike, scooter, or walking is often called an "active" form of this.
What is transportation?
When city leaders decide where bus stops should go, they are planning this.
What is public transportation?
In 1969, the first humans landed on this place after traveling there in a spacecraft.
What is the moon?
This country is famous for its super-fast “bullet trains” called the Shinkansen.
What is Japan?
The world's largest bicycle race takes place each year in France.
What is the Tour de France?
If four people ride in one car instead of four separate cars, they are doing this.
What is carpooling?
An ice storm shuts down roads. Which type of transportation might still be able to bring supplies from far away?
What is an airplane?
Scientists hope that future astronauts will one day visit this red planet, which is farther away than the Moon.
What is Mars?
Building and maintaining train systems requires planning, money, and coordination across cities and regions. This type of large public system is called transportation _____.
infrastructure
This force between a bike's tires and the road helps keep the rider from slipping.
What is friction?
A city builds safe bike lanes, sidewalks, and bus routes so people don't always need a car. The goal is to reduce this in the air.
What is pollution
A neighborhood has sidewalks, parks, schools, stores, and bus stops all close together. People often call this a "walkable" _____.
What is community?
This is the name for the path a spacecraft follows as it travels around Earth or another planet.
What is an orbit?
his famous train system in India is one of the largest in the world and carries millions of passengers every day.
What is the Indian railways?